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The Precipitation Response to an Idealized Subtropical Continent

Author(s)
Maroon, Elizabeth A.Frierson, Dargan M. W.Kang, Sarah M.Scheff, Jacob
Issued Date
2016-06
DOI
10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0616.1
URI
https://scholarworks.unist.ac.kr/handle/201301/19639
Fulltext
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0616.1
Citation
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, v.29, no.12, pp.4543 - 4564
Abstract
A subtropical continent is added to two aquaplanet atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) to better understand the influence of land on tropical circulation and precipitation. The first model, the gray-radiation moist (GRaM) AGCM, has simplified physics, while the second model, the GFDL Atmospheric Model version 2.1 (AM2.1), is a fully comprehensive AGCM. Both models have a continent that is 60° wide in longitude from 10° to 30°N, in an otherwise slab-ocean-covered world. The precipitation response varies with cloudy- and clear-sky feedbacks and depends on continental albedo. In GRaM simulations with a continent, precipitation in the Northern Hemisphere decreases mostly as a result of decreased evaporation. In AM2.1 simulations, precipitation also shifts southward via Hadley circulation changes due to increasing albedo, but the radiative impact of clouds and moisture creates a more complex response. Results are similar when a seasonal cycle of insolation is included in AM2.1 simulations. The impact of a large, bright subtropical continent is to shift precipitation to the opposite hemisphere. In these simulations, the hemisphere of greater tropical precipitation is better predicted by the hemisphere with greater atmospheric energy input, as has been shown in previous literature, rather than the hemisphere that has higher surface temperature.
Publisher
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
ISSN
0894-8755
Keyword
INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONEGENERAL-CIRCULATION MODELSEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURELAST GLACIAL MAXIMUMPART ITROPICAL PRECIPITATIONHADLEY CIRCULATIONOCEAN CIRCULATIONMONSOON DYNAMICSDEEP CONVECTION

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